FROM THE ARCHIVES: 'Jaxxon's 11,' Scene 1




A couple of years ago, I had a very, very silly idea for a comic book:

Resurrect the stupidest character from the 1970s Marvel "Star Wars" comic books -- a seven-foot-tall green rabbit named Jaxxon -- and have him recruit a middle-aged Han Solo for one last heist.

As a joke, my co-worker David Stroup and I hammered out a story while driving back from a coffee shop. (This isn't quite as out-of-the-blue as it sounds -- the coffee shop was two blocks away from the offices of Dark Horse Comics, and we'd just been chatting with one of their editors.)

A few weeks later, also as a joke, we pitched it as a free Web comic to the world's biggest "Star Wars" fan site.

Well.

Forty-two pages later, "Jaxxon's 11" remains the single geekiest act of my public life. The comic has its own page at TheForce.net, and you can download a "J11 Scriptbook" and high-rez PDFs of all the pages here. I wrote the script, packing it with references to the original Marvel "Star Wars" comics (which I purchased and, between frequent bouts of wincing, read). David added his own gags and drew the pages with a lunatic attention to detail.

Unfortunately, both David and I went through major career changes in 2004. Even though we have a full story outline, we haven't put any new scenes online in about 10 months. But I hear David may soon be drawing pages 43-51 -- which I finally got around to scripting -- so I'm re-posting the "Jaxxon" archive here as a refresher.

Here's Scene 1, "Welcome to Mos Eisley." You can read it at the official site, or click here to check it out after the jump.


Posted: Thu - February 24, 2005 at 01:04 PM        

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